Shen Shuli's eyes flashed a dark light, and she ended the topic.

"Okay, Master Chu, have a safe journey."

Xie Chengyuan looked at the girl again before turning and leaving.

The main force had originally planned to leave this morning.

Another day's walk and they would be able to get out of the mountain.

But in the early morning, they suddenly experienced a life-and-death battle, and more than a dozen people were seriously injured.

They could only continue to stay here and let the wounded recover before making any plans.

Most of the villagers ran away.

The remaining people seemed to feel ashamed and huddled beside their luggage, at a loss as to what to do.

The village chief had no choice but to step forward and take charge of the situation.

...

...

Su Yunhai is already catching up on his sleep.

Before going to bed, I did not tell the village chief about today's and future arrangements.

The village chief knew that Su Yunhai was feeling resentful.

But he could do nothing about it.

His son was stabbed in the back and the injury was serious. He definitely would not leave and would stay and wait for his son to recover.

"Everyone, come here, I have something to say." The village chief called the remaining people to discuss the matter.

Seeing that the village chief was still willing to pay attention to them, the villagers hurried over and waited for his arrangements.

These days, they were assigned tasks every day.

Suddenly no one was in charge and they didn't know what to do.

Like a puppet without a soul.

"Everyone, be quiet for a moment. I'm here to discuss this with you because I want to talk about our next plans."

"We fought with the barbarians today, and many of us were seriously injured and unable to move. We need to stay here for a few days to recover."

"I know some of you don't have much food and water, and you won't be able to hold out for long. If you have ideas, you can leave early. We can get out of the mountain by walking another 30 miles south along the mountain road."

"It will be the official road then. You can decide where to go."

"If anyone wants to stay, you are free to do so. However, I will no longer be the village chief from today on. Even if you stay, I will no longer be in charge of your affairs."

"Otherwise, if something like today happens again, everyone will hide away and refuse to help. Others are not fools and will always be your shield, so I advise you to think carefully about whether to stay or leave, and take care of yourself in the future."

Old man Li said this to the villagers and also to the entire Li family.

The entire Li family.

Only Li Rui and Li Dazhu stood up.

Everyone else stayed away.

Although the old man doesn't want everyone to die in vain, he has to show his attitude, right?

Su Yunhai's daughter is only thirteen years old, she can understand the truth, even if it is said to that extent.

result……

The old village chief said something shocking.

The villagers were all dumbfounded.

They didn't expect the village chief to say such words at this time. It was clearly trying to drive them away!

"Village chief, how can you not be the village chief? If you don't take us with you, how would we know what to do next!"

"Village Chief, how could you chase us away? You brought us here! How could you just ignore us?"

"You can't blame us for this. They are the extremely powerful northern barbarians who eat human flesh and drink human blood! Of course we are scared. You can't just let us die!"

"You know we can't win, but you still want us to go. Are you deliberately sending us to our deaths? You are too cruel!"

"That's right. Aren't the Su family and the Shen family very powerful? Didn't they win even though we didn't help them?"

"That's right. Those who are capable should do more work. Although we didn't participate, didn't we also get a share of the spoils? I saw that they took a lot of silver!"

The old village chief didn't expect that the villagers could say such things.

He thought that he was giving everyone a way out, and they could at least apologize to the Su family and build up everyone's solidarity.

If something similar happens again next time, at least everyone will not back down, will not sell out their companions, and will work together for a win-win situation.

The result was very disappointing to him!

"Okay, okay, in that case, I won't care about anything!"

"And the people of the Li family, if anyone of you wants to leave, tell me now. I will assign you a household registration, and you can leave now."

The old village chief was so angry that he kept coughing and his old face turned red.

"If anyone doesn't want to stay, please tell me your opinion." The old village chief's cloudy eyes swept across the Li family members one by one.

Seeing this, all the Li family members lowered their heads in shame, not daring to look him in the eye.

Soon, the crowd became lively.

"Let's go, there are a group of bandits and soldiers watching us from behind. We don't know when they will rush out and kill us. We don't know how long it will take to feed these people. Our food can't withstand such continuous consumption. Let's go first."

Some villagers made a decision immediately and left with their families and luggage without hesitation.

Seeing some people leaving, the villagers became even more restless.

Slowly, more people chose to leave.

Even some members of the Li family left.

Li Erniu’s family was among them.

When Li Erniu heard the word "barbarian", he was so frightened that he didn't dare to go up no matter how Li Dazhu tried to persuade him.

Now he only felt guilty and didn't know how to face Su Yunhai and Li Dazhui. He just wanted to stay away from them.

Wu Shitou had the same idea as Li Erniu, so he also chose to leave.

In the end, only fifty-three people remained.

Most of them are members of the Li family.

After all, Village Chief Li is the patriarch of the Li clan and the backbone of the Li family.

Wherever the backbone is, there they are.

Under the persuasion of Village Chief Li, each family of those who stayed behind sent a representative to apologize to the Su family and express their stance.

But Su Yunhai slept for six hours before waking up.

Shen Shuli was worried that bandits and government officials would catch up with her.

After all, the team is now the loosest and weakest.

The main combat forces were all seriously injured and needed to recuperate.

She is responsible for everyone's safety.

As for the choice of the villagers of Taohua Village, Shen Shuli didn't take it to heart.

After this, Shen Shuli no longer had any expectations for the people in this world.

She was deeply aware of it.

They are all paper NPCs that have already been arranged by the author in the book, and their ideas on certain things are difficult to change.

Only when the characters awaken and break free from the shackles set for them by the author, can they perhaps be truly reborn.

Now, there are only two men in the Su family, Su Changan and Su Dingan.

Shen Shuli asked her mother to assign tasks to them and asked them to stand up quickly.

As for the people from the main branch of the Su family, they were the ones who ran the fastest when they heard that there were barbarians.

The people from the third room were also forcibly called away by Old Lady Su.

They also took away a mule cart from Su Yunhai's family.

The car was full of dried meat, weighing more than 500 kilograms.

Shen Yuehua was so angry that she threw away her dignified ladylike demeanor and cursed for an hour before she calmed down.

Many villagers also fled without taking their luggage with them.

The old village chief decided to distribute some of these things to the villagers who left.

The rest was distributed according to households to the villagers who chose to stay.

Each family only received about ten kilograms of food, which was better than nothing.